SURVEILLANCEandCITIZENSHIP

18-19 JUNE 2015Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural StudiesCardiff University

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WELCOME NOTE BY THE HEAD OFSCHOOL

Dear conference participants,

as Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) here at Cardiff University, it givesme great pleasure to welcome you to Cardiff and to the conference 'Surveillance and Citizenship'.

The Snowden revelations on mass surveillance have changed our understanding of our everydaycommunication and raised serious questions regarding civil rights in online environments, but also the role ofthe media in reporting controversial issues. Just over two years after the revelations began, this conferenceprovides a necessary occasion to reflect on their implications, challenges and opportunities.

JOMEC is an excellent place for this reflection as it combines established research interests on media andjournalism with new concerns of digital environments. It is a place of world-leading research with bothpractical training and engagement with industry and civil society. JOMEC ranked 2nd in the United Kingdomin the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the quality of its journalism, media and communicationsresearch. The Communication, Culture and Media Studies assessment panel awarded the school the highestpossible score of 100% for the impact of its research on the wider world.

The School addresses the challenges of current and future digital environments through a variety of initiatives,including its new research group 'Digital Media and Society', new MA/MSc programmes in 'Digital Media andSociety' and 'Computational Journalism', its Centre for Community Journalism, and a breadth of research ontopics ranging from online citizen media and digital activism to digital culture and creative industries, and tointernet governance, humanitarian communications and the protection of civil rights on the internet.

I wish you an inspiring conference and a good time here at JOMEC and in Cardiff.

Professor Simon Cottle,Head of School

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DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP ANDSURVEILLANCE SOCIETY

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The revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden have providedunprecedented insights into contemporary mass surveillance. They havedemonstrated how social media platforms are used to gather data on us,how data travelling through the backbone cables of the internet isintercepted, how security agencies weaken the security standards ofcommunication platforms and how they hack into corporate networks andpersonal computers, as well as the extent to which all this data is analysed.Perhaps even more significantly, the leaks have prompted debates on thenature of civil rights in digital environments; the challenges of securecommunication; the nature of the security state; the quality of mediacoverage; and new threats to press freedom and political dissent.

Two years after the revelations started, this conference will review their impacts and consequences for a widerange of social, political, technological and rights-related areas. We will discuss the state of surveillance indifferent countries; explore regulatory frameworks and reform proposals; analyse technical challenges forsecure communication, and learn about tools and strategies that are being developed; discuss the level ofpublic reaction and activist responses; and review the media coverage of the leaks. Through all this, we willexplore the challenges and opportunities for (active) citizenship and democracy in the ‘Snowden Era’.

The conference is part of an ongoing research project called "Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society:UK State-Media-Citizen Relations after the Snowden Leaks". The collaborative project, hosted by CardiffUniversity, explores the nature of digital citizenship in light of mass surveillance. Four teams of researchersinvestigate the implications of the Snowden revelations for the areas: policy, law and regulation; technologicalinfrastructures; civil society, advocacy and activism; media coverage and press freedoms. We are trying toaddress questions such as: How do regulatory frameworks need to be revised? What roles do technicalstandards play in enabling or hindering surveillance? Does surveillance have a chilling effect on activism andcivil society engagement? What are the biases in news reporting on the Snowden leaks? We will presentpreliminary results at this conference and we are looking forward to discussing these issues with all of you.

But most importantly, this conference is a conversation between academics and practitioners, and it is aspace to bring together scholarly research, strategic debate, and technological development. We are lucky tohave at this event leading international experts on surveillance and whistleblowing, representatives of digitalrights organisations, developers of secure communication tools, and academic scholars. And we hope youwill all take the opportunity to explore areas that you may be less familiar with – whether it is an academicsession on digital citizenship, a strategic workshop on policy reform, or a lightning talk presenting newtechnological tools. In our view, all these (and many more) are important components that belong together ifwe want to both understand and intervene into the 'Snowden Era'.

Arne HintzPrincipal Investigator 'Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society'

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The Conference ‘Surveillance and Citizenship’ has been organised by the research team conducting theproject ‘Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the SnowdenLeaks’:

Arne Hintz (Cardiff University)

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University)

Lina Dencik (Cardiff University)

Ian Brown (Oxford University)

Michael Rogers (Technical University Delft)

Jonathan Cable (Cardiff University)

Grace Eden (Cardiff University)

Lucy Bennett (Cardiff University)

Josh Cowls (Oxford University)

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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

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Thursday, June 18th

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Digital Citizenship andSurveillance Society:Project Presentation

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Journalism and MediaRepresentation

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The PRISM of NSA:Security, Privacy andJournalism in the GlobalDebate on the SnowdenAffair

The Politics of Investigatingthe Innocent

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(Anti-)Surveillance Policiesand Privacy Protection

Global Perspectives onSurveillance, Security andCommunication Policy

Digital Rights, Activismand Advocacy

Snowden Files for All

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Information Security forJournalists and Activists

Creating Usable andSecure Software

Technology for SecureCommunication andCounter-surveillance:Lightning Talks

Fighting MassSurveillance in Europeand Beyond: the EUPassenger Name Record(PNR) Directive

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

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Friday, June 19th

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KEYNOTES, PLENARIES, EXHIBITION,HACKATHON

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Special Sessions

The Portable Snowden Surveillance Archive

HUSH! Usability and Security Hackathon

DETAILED SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

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Arrival and registration

Welcome and opening:

Keynote:

Plenary 1: State-Media-CitizenRelations in the SurveillanceSociety

Coffee break

Digital Citizenship andSurveillance Society: ProjectPresentation

(Anti-)Surveillance Policies andPrivacy Protection

Information Security forJournalists and Activists

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Journalism and MediaRepresentation

Global Perspectives onSurveillance, Security andCommunication Policy

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Creating Usable and SecureSoftware

Coffee break

The PRISM of NSA: Security,Privacy and Journalism in theGlobal Debate on the SnowdenAffair

Digital Rights, Activism andAdvocacy

Technology for SecureCommunication and Counter-surveillance: Lightning Talks

The Politics of Investigating theInnocent

Snowden Files For All?

Fighting Mass Surveillance inEurope and Beyond: the EUPassenger Name Record (PNR)Directive

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Code Red

Plenary 2: Policy, Technology, andthe User in the SurveillanceSociety

Coffee Break

Dimensions of Digital Citizenship:Concepts and Challenges

Strategies for Change and thePolitics of Digital Rights

Reforming Surveillance Policyafter the UK General Election

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Public Attitudes, Perception andEveryday Surveillance

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Exploring Intersections:Surveillance between Technology,Policy and Politics

Disrupting the SurveillanceEcosystem

Investigating Surveillance: TheGerman Parliamentary Inquiry onthe Work of Security Agencies

Digital Footprint Analysis: A DataPrivacy Workshop

Implementing the InternationalPrinciples on the Application ofHuman Rights toCommunications Surveillance

Closing Plenary:

“HUSH”: Usability and SecurityHackathon

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